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Love it, or hate it – Firefox got one more addition to it’s browser that seems to have gotten a mixed reaction from the fans. The open new tab button rests at the end of your tab bar in Firefox 3.5 giving you an easier user interface to open a new tab.

Clicking on the little “+” icon at the end of your open tabs, opens a new tab. Seems simple enough, and I do like the fact that it gives one more clean way for new users to instantly figure it out.

How do I remove the new tab button? Well, if you are handy with editing your userChrome.css file – this should be an easy customization to put in place. Just add this line:

.tabs-newtab-button {display: none;}

To edit your userChrome.css file, you must first locate it inside of your profile folder. Depending on your operating system of choice, that location might differ. Check out “where is my Firefox profile folder?” for more information.

There are a number of different ways you can reload or refresh a window in Firefox. For such a simple task, you would have never imagined that people have put so much work into making it easier. The truth of the matter though is they have, and I want to share with you all the tab reloading secrets that I know of (and hopefully you can share your own favorites with me).

Here are the add-ons to help you with your page loading and re-loading.

There are many ways you can customize Firefox to make it fit your personal needs. Don’t like the fact that the tabs are just a little rounded, and wish they were more rounded? No need to try to find a theme that fits your needs. I have for you, four ways to round off your tabs in Firefox using the Stylish extension. You can round off all tabs, one tab corner, just the selected tab or forget about all this rounded stuff and make them all square.

Last, but not least, you could also decide to round off only the selected tab. The reason for doing this is to help visually make it different from the others so that you can pick it out from the crowd of tabs in your tab toolbar.

You now have more than a few ways to make your tabs stand out from the rest of the crowd.

I always love to look at any kind of stats, because they interest me. I like to know what people are doing, how many people are doing it and where they are coming from. With that said, there is a new Firefox add-on that will let you keep tabs on your tabs. All hail the New Tab King!

The New Tab King extension for Firefox gives you one spot to see all the web sites you use the most. Instead of getting a blank page when you open a new tab, the New Tab King add-on delivers to you the web sites and bookmarks you have visited the most in the past 30 days. Each site is displayed with its description text and the web site’s favicon.

This add-on for Firefox could definitely become a fan favorite over time. So if you want to replace your new tab screen with something a little more useful, give New Tab King a shot.

Need an easier way to share a list of links you may have opened up in tabs via Firefox? Send Tab URLs is an add-on for Firefox that will allow you to send a list of browser tab URLs to e-mail, web mail, or the clipboard.

If you do a lot of sharing of links, this add-on can come in really handy. Here are some of the other features Send Tab URLs has to offer:

Send Tab URLs Features:

Works with most e-mail applications (some limitations apply to Windows users; see Known Issues below for details). Gmail is also supported.

Up to 30 browser tabs can be listed; there is no limit if sending the URL list to the clipboard

Select the style of the URL list in the email: numbered, bulleted, or plain list

Not often do the people behind the absolutely awesome Firefox add-ons, tools and the browser itself get much time in the spotlight. I recently had the chance to talk with the ColorfulTabs extension author, Shivanand Sharma, to get his views on his creation and a number of other development related questions.

What first inspired you to create the ColorfulTabs add-on for Firefox?

Before I begin I’d like to congratulate you and commend you for the great and popular blog and content you have created. A ‘hello’ to all your visitors and fans of Firefox.

Back in the old days when Firefox caught my attention, there was a page with a walk-through on how to use userchrome.css to style your toolbars and buttons. The article was created by Flexer and I was so fascinated that I spent hours coloring and styling every aspect of the browser. One day the idea just struck – what if every tab was a different color? At least the tab boundaries will be more distinguishable. It was a small idea that gave birth to ColorfulTabs. Initially ColorfulTabs just used 32 fixed colors to color each tab in a cycle (after the 32nd tab color cycle just restarted).

Think of that wasted space in your tab bar. You know, where the favicon for the web site your visiting rests. Isn’t there enough room there to fit in a little more information about the web site you are visiting?

The new Firefox add-on Badges on Favicon takes advantage of that idea very well. It allows you to put a rounded badge over the tab favicon of some pages. Where does this come in handy? Well what if you could see in your tab the number of unread Gmail messages you had? Or how about if it told you how many new posts were in Google Reader?

Nuggets of Information for Your Tabs

The extension uses little scripts, called badgets. The badgets define both the appearance of the badge (color, position, size of the text, etc.) and how to get the data from the current page. The extension comes with three sample badgets that work with Gmail, iGoogle Reader Gadget and Zenbe. But you can install your own badgets and even create your own for your preferred site.

Need a few more options for your Firefox tabs? Twanno’s Tab Clicking Options extension for Firefox should do the trick. With the Tab Clicking Options extension it is possible to set various actions to different clicking events on the tab bar or a tab in the Firefox browser.

This is no doubt that Tab Clicking Options makes it easier to work with your tabs in a number of different ways. Also, because I know somebody will bring it up – Tab Mix Plus will also do a lot of these same things too. So if you want an alternative – there you go. (via Download Squad)

Bonus: Via Twanno’s Firefox extensions page you can also pick up his Duplicate Tab add-on for the browser. It allows you to clone a tab along with its history.

What was that tab you closed about three tabs back again? Could it have been the fourth tab back, before you got your coffee? If you find yourself using the Ctrl + Shift + T keyboard combination to bring up lost tabs a lot, there is a better way to get the job done. The Undo Closed Tabs Button add-on for Firefox gives you a few ways to save your lost tabs.

This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu. Also it comes with a much easier keyboard combination of its own to remember, Ctrl + Shift + Z. You must add the toolbar button by going to View -> Toolbars -> Customize, then drag and drop the icon where you want it on the toolbar.

Save your lost tabs, and save yourself a lot of wear and tear on your Ctrl and Shift keys while you are at it. Your keyboard will thank you!

Where exactly would you like to put that bookmark? If you’re in a hurry, and currently in the folder you need to bookmark a link in – you can pickup the Add Bookmark Here 2 add-on for Firefox to get the job done.

This extension adds a new menu item when you right-click any of your bookmark folders to allow you to bookmark your current web site you are viewing into that folder. Here are a few more features to get excited about.

Expand all fields of bookmark popup panel.

Allow customize the position of “Add Bookmark Here” & “Open All Tabs”

Allow to add bookmarks from the top of Bookmark Menu.

Allow to insert a bookmark by using right-click on a bookmark.

Auto remember last selected folder when you bookmark a page

New option: Don’t show the Edit Dialog when I add a bookmark.

New option: Click the Bookmark Star once to show the Edit Dialog.

This is a small change that really does make bookmarking just a little easier. You can pick up Add Bookmark Here 2 on the Firefox Add-ons web site.